Posts Tagged ‘gpl’

Introducing WordPress

This is an excellent video introduction to the concepts of WordPress. Pay close attention to the open source principles and references that Matt makes. Those same ideas drive everything I do at work and online.

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Microsoft Not So Altruistic After All

I recently wrote that Microsoft suddenly released some code to the open source community.  Turns out their motives weren’t as pure as first thought: Sometimes, some things are just too good to be true. Earlier this week, Microsoft made a relatively stunning announcement that it would contribute some 20000 lines of code to the Linux [...]

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Microsoft Stuns Linux Community

This is absolutely stunning: In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux Device Driver for Virtualization. The drivers, once added to the Linux kernel, will provide the hooks for [...]

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